Rankings up - traffic down?

RedOctobre · Jan 15, 2020

I've recently gotten rank 2 or 3 across most of my major keywords for one of my businesses (each around 260-390 searches per month for local business keywords). As my rankings have increased though, I've noticed my traffic and lead submissions have actually gone down (per Google Analytics.)

Does anyone know why this could be? What would cause traffic to drop even with your rankings going up?

liyong601c · Jan 15, 2020

your rank lost...search on your browser, the ahref and semrush are slow 2-5 days.

Mr Positive · Jan 15, 2020

Are you sure manually check your rankings must be some mistake

Fahad Ahmed Haidary · Jan 15, 2020

Mr Positive said:
Are you sure manually check your rankings must be some mistake

Yeah check again please.

Psh · Jan 15, 2020

Are you only checking main keywords or longtails as well?

bahus · Jan 15, 2020

RedOctobre said:
I've recently gotten rank 2 or 3 across most of my major keywords for one of my businesses (each around 260-390 searches per month for local business keywords). As my rankings have increased though, I've noticed my traffic and lead submissions have actually gone down (per Google Analytics.)

Does anyone know why this could be? What would cause traffic to drop even with your rankings going up?

Have your impressions in GSC went up or down after rank increase?

rafark · Jan 15, 2020

Perhaps your niche is seasonal?

RedOctobre · Jan 15, 2020

liyong601c said:
your rank lost...search on your browser, the ahref and semrush are slow 2-5 days.

This is based on SerpFox data, and I confirmed the major ones manually.

Mr Positive said:
Are you sure manually check your rankings must be some mistake

Checked the bigger keywords manually, they line up with SerpFox.

Stackz said:
Are you only checking main keywords or longtails as well?

Only checking main keywords, but I haven't had any noteworthy decreases in longtails that I've been tracking. Overall I haven't had any net decreases in any keyword I rank for.

bahus said:
Have your impressions in GSC went up or down after rank increase?

Gently trending upward.

rafark said:
Perhaps your niche is seasonal?

It might be, but I haven't noticed any seasonal dips before. Not in the beginning of the year, at least.

Thanks for any advice, folks!

Psh · Jan 15, 2020

RedOctobre said:
Only checking main keywords, but I haven't had any noteworthy decreases in longtails that I've been tracking. Overall I haven't had any net decreases in any keyword I rank for.

Interesting, something similar happened to me. I went up by 3 positions and got less sales, still don't know why/how that happened. More traffic = more sales you'd think.

Maybe a snippet box has appeared for your keywords and is stealing most of the traffic?

Safox alee · Jan 15, 2020

"each around 260-390 searches per month for local business keywords" its an estimated value and is the average of 12 months.There is a slight chance that people are actually not searching for your keywords.You can check your competitors as well using alexa whether they are getting clicks or not. This info can help you before making any conclusions in this scenario.

Bumbershoot · Jan 15, 2020

dont worry, If you check your analytics and search console, everything is ok then the problem is your keywords might not trending anymore at the moment

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